Nabil

“I knew she meant a compliment. I should have just been able to take it as that. I shouldn’t have been so oversensitive.” I took a swallow of my own tea. “That being the case,” I said, “why shouldn’t Lieutenant Seivarden have taken it as a compliment that you trusted her enough to tell her how you felt? Why should she not apologize for being oversensitive?”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy

“As my friend, lesbian artist Harmony Hammond, writes of coming up in the 1960s and ’70s, “to be both a woman and an artist was considered a contradiction of identities.” And now suddenly I have no choice but to face the possibility that this moment is no different”
― Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir

“was smiling; I think I was kind of pleased. I remember it as a happy moment. New heights in androgyny achieved! But I also instinctively took it as a kind of flirtation.”
― Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir

“comfort and ease of conversations centered around work and ideas. Hardly anyone is talking about their kids. I”
― Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir